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Jan 10, 2025 | 
benton.org | Lauren Bauer |Chloe East |Olivia Howard
To assess the compensation of workers, it matters not only how much money they earn, but also the manner in which their pay is earned. That is to say, to earn $25,000, one worker may have reliable and consistent earnings and hours from a single employer, while another may have multiple employers, inconsistent work hours, and variable wages. While workers may desire some amount of flexibility in their work schedule and earnings, volatility itself can also be troublesome.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
brookings.edu | Lauren Bauer |Chloe East |Olivia Howard
To assess the compensation of workers, it matters not only how much money they earn, but also the manner in which their pay is earned. That is to say, to earn $25,000, one worker may have reliable and consistent earnings and hours from a single employer, while another may have multiple employers, inconsistent work hours, and variable wages. While workers may desire some amount of flexibility in their work schedule and earnings, volatility itself can also be troublesome.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Chloe East
Immigration is one of the most important topics in this presidential election cycle. Former President Trump has promised to conduct a massive deportation effort that would remove millions of people per year. The latest statistics show about 11 million unauthorized immigrants are living in the U.S., and several million more people have arrived in the past two years on parole or with an uncertain legal future.
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May 10, 2024 | 
nber.org | Jason Cook |Chloe East
Skip to main content We thank Elizabeth Cox for helpful research assistance. We are grateful for helpful comments from Marianne Bitler, Amy Finkelstein, Tatiana Homonoff, Laura Tiehen, Michele Ver Ploeg, and Jim Ziliak. We learned about the experiences of applying for means-tested benefits and working while receiving benefits from listening to The Uncertain Hour podcast and through in-depth conversations and shadowing program administrators.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Chloe East |Benjamin H. Harris |Sanjay Patnaik |Louise Sheiner
With 2023 winding down, we asked six Brookings experts to take a moment to look back on some of the biggest economic policy developments of 2023 and the ways they expect them to evolve in 2024. Explore their reflections on fiscal policy, the social safety net, climate economics, and more below. On some dimensions, the U.S. labor market appears to have mostly recovered from the COVID-19 shock and to be stronger than before.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
hamiltonproject.org | Chloe East |Wendy Edelberg |Noadia Steinmetz-Silber
See an updated interactive chartIntroductionAmericans’ pay has been buffeted by numerous factors since the pandemic began: historic job losses at the beginning of the pandemic, strength in the labor market through the recovery, sectoral shifts in the wake of the pandemic, and ongoing high levels of inflation. Remarkably, there is little consensus on how workers’ pay has fared over this period.
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Oct 23, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Chloe East |Wendy Edelberg |Noadia Steinmetz-Silber
IntroductionAmericans’ pay has been buffeted by numerous factors since the pandemic began: historic job losses at the beginning of the pandemic, strength in the labor market through the recovery, sectoral shifts in the wake of the pandemic, and ongoing high levels of inflation. Remarkably, there is little consensus on how workers’ pay has fared over this period.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
hamiltonproject.org | Lauren Bauer |Chloe East
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP; formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) is a crucial part of the safety net in the United States, providing benefits to roughly 41 million Americans per month to maintain a nutritious diet. Following welfare reform in 1996, SNAP became the only truly universal means-tested safety net program in the U.S. In that same year, however, work requirements in SNAP expanded, limiting the efficacy of the program to support all low-income households.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Lauren Bauer |Chloe East
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP; formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) is a crucial part of the safety net in the United States, providing benefits to roughly 41 million Americans per month to maintain a nutritious diet. Following welfare reform in 1996, SNAP became the only truly universal means-tested safety net program in the U.S. In that same year, however, work requirements in SNAP expanded, limiting the efficacy of the program to support all low-income households.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
nber.org | Jason Cook |Chloe East
We thank Marianne Bitler, Matthew Freedman, Peter Ganong, Hilary Hoynes, Peter Hull, Tatiana Homonoff, Adam Looney, Michelle Marcus, Bruce Meyer, Sarah Miller, Matthew Notowidigdo, Analisa Packham, Bruce Sacerdote, Maya Rossin-Slater, Diane Schanzenbach, Jesse Shapiro, Jesse Rothstein, and Barton Willage for helpful comments as well as seminar participants at BYU, the University of Oklahoma, SUNY Binghamton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin,...
